Posts Tagged ‘therapeutic grade essential oils’
July 5th, 2009 | Author: admin
Valor® is an empowering combination of therapeutic-grade essential oils that works with both the physical and spiritual aspects of the body to increase feelings of strength, courage, and self-esteem in the face of adversity.
Renowned for its strengthening qualities, Valor enhances an individual’s internal resources. It has also been found to help energy alignment in the body.
Ingredients: Spruce , rosewood , blue tansy, and frankincense) in a base of almond oil.
June 26th, 2009 | Author: admin
Emotional Health and Essential Oils
The natural properties found in essential oils produce a soothing, uplifting effect on the mind and emotions. When an oil containing the optimum level of therapeutic constituents is diffused or applied topically, the result fosters a sense of emotional balance and well-being. Studies in Europe have found that pure therapeutic grade essential oils quickly stimulate the hypothalamus where the emotions are stored.
Essential Oils for Improved Emotional Wellness
When the aroma of essential oils is inhaled, the scent travels to the reticular system of the brain stem where emotions and memories are connected. This enables essential oils to improve emotional wellness in many ways. Those haunted by negative memories can use a cleansing blend, and in times of stress or mental fatigue a rejuvenating oil can remove emotional stressors and leave you feeling mentally invigorated. Other essential oils increase feelings of courage and determination when faced with life’s many challenges. Regardless of your emotional health, the therapeutic properties harnessed in essential oils can help you improve or regain an optimal state of emotional wellness.
Essential Oils and the Mind
Smell is the only one of the five senses directly linked to the limbic lobe—the emotional control centre—of the brain. From anxiety to tension, fatigue to stress, essential oils have long been appreciated for their uplifting, calming, and clarifying effects on emotional wellness. By diffusing essential oils or applying them topically to targeted areas of the body, therapeutic constituents re-establish balance where stress or mental discomfort has disrupted healthy emotional function.
To bring yourself into a state of emotional balance, consider using essential oils either by diffusing or applied topically.
Applying Essential Oils Topically to Help Balance the Mind
Essential oils can be applied through self massage. Here are some commonly used techniques for self-massage:
• Head Massage: Rub essential oils into the base of the skull, the crown of the head, or on the temples in a circular motion.
• Face Massage: Place a few drops of essential oils onto your hands and rub them together. Lightly cup your face in your hands; the warmth of your hands and aroma of the oils will aid in relaxation.
• Jaw Massage: Rub 1–2 drops of oil into the soft spot just below your ear lobe to release undue tension.
• Torso Massage: For a quick energy boost rub oils into the area above the kidneys.
• Foot Massage: There are many pressure points in the feet that correspond to other body systems. Rubbing the soles of the feet with essential oils is a great way to release tension.
All of the above techniques can assist to bring the body back into balance. These techniques are particularly effective in times when the body is experiencing stress.
There are Pure Therapeutic Essential Oils that can assist with Emotional Wellness
• Valor: An empowering combination of oils designed to enhance an individual’s internal resources.
• Peace & Calming: relieves tension and uplift the spirit.
• White Angelica: A calming and soothing blend that encourages feelings of protection and security.
• Harmony: Promotes physical and emotional well-being.
• Release: Facilitates the ability to release anger and frustration.
• Clarity: Promotes a clear mind and alertness.
• Gratitude: Designed to elevate the spirit, calm emotions, and bring relief to the body.
• Trauma Life: Formulated to help release buried emotional trauma.
• Feelings Collection: Features six essential oil blends formulated to promote emotional clearance and self renewal.
Treat Yourself to an emotional cleansing with essential oils today!
June 24th, 2009 | Author: admin
Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils – Why They Deliver Outstanding Results
The Process
The total process used in planting, cultivating, harvesting, and distilling a batch of plant oil is crucial to retaining its vital compounds. Without the exact blend of naturally-occurring plant chemicals, an essential oil can lose its beneficial properties and fail to produce the desired effect.
To deliver the optimal naturally-occurring blend of constituents that makes true therapeutic grade essential oils, a process of strict cultivation illustrated by the Four Ps – plants, preparation, purity and potency – must occur to guarantee the optimal grade of every essential oil.
Plants – it all starts here
The potency of any essential oil can be affected not only by selecting the proper plant to cultivate, but also by where the plant is grown, the quality of soil in which the seed is planted, and even the time of day it’s harvested.
Selecting the correct species of plant for desired oil potency, planting under optimal conditions, using ideal soil and natural methods to encourage growth, and knowing the precise time to harvest each crop is vital for the delivery of true therapeutic grade essential oils. Only those plants that produce the most active and widest array of therapeutic compounds are should be selected.
Preparation is the key
Once the optimal soil, plant, cultivation, and harvesting conditions have been adhered to, the plants must be distilled using a distinct method in order to deliver therapeutic grade oil. Distillation should be conducted using a gentle, low heat and low pressure technique for steam-extraction to deliver the most potent essential oils.
To ensure this proper distillation standard, strict temperature must be maintained throughout the distillation process, the correct pressure, length of time of the distillation process, equipment type and batch size all must be strictly monitored.
Purity is the goal
True therapeutic grade essential oils are not diluted, cut or adulterated at any time during the process.
Rigorous testing in state-of-the-art labs using the most advanced equipment in the world, such as Gas Chromatograph and Mass Spectrometer testing, can show even the slightest hint of possible adulteration or tampering. Essential oils that demonstrate even the slightest hint of adulteration are not classed as therapeutic grade oils.
Potency the ultimate achievement
The culmination of the preceding three stages, Potency means that the naturally occurring compounds contained in each essential oil product are of the highest and most consistent bioactive levels. Without strict adherence to the preceding three processes in the Plant, Preparation, and Purity phases, the final product would not have the necessary potency to create the desired therapeutic effect.
Who meets the therapeutic grade standards?
Essential Oils produced and supplied by Young Living consistently deliver therapeutic grade oils, oil blends, oil infused nutritional supplements and personal care products containing therapeutic grade essential oils that meet the strictest of purity and potency standards.
Young Living owns the land the plants are grown on, develop the seeds that are planted, distil the plants using the strictest process of low heat and low temperature to guarantee the delivery of pure, potent therapeutic grade essential oils.